• Squeak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t really say these are cybersecurity tools, but it’s sure as shit not Brave.

  • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    58·
    1 year ago

    A few of those are not shown on the picture, but this is my personal list of favorites:

    • GrapheneOS

    It’s just the best, most private and secure mobile OS.

    • Signal

    End-to-end encrypted messenger with great history and track record

    • LibreWolf

    A Firefox-based browser with out-of-the-box privacy improvements and pre-installed ad-blocker

    • Mull

    Firefox for Android with privacy improvements

    • SearXNG

    Self-hostable meta-search engine

    • Whoogle

    Proxy for Google search

    • Piped

    Private YouTube frontend

    • LibreTube

    Piped client for Android

    • Notesnook

    End-to-end encrypted notes app

    • Aegis

    Good 2FA app for Android

    • Bitwarden

    Secure, FOSS password manager

    Edit:

    • NextDNS

    Private DNS service with customizable filters

    • SimpleLogin

    Email aliasing service allowing you to create a new email address for every service you want to sign up for

      • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I use Vanadium for high-security tasks, but Mull is my default browser for standard browsing. It has better privacy, because it has built-in anti-fingerprinting mechanisms and you can actually install proper adblockers like uBlock Origin. Also, I don’t want to support Google’s monopoly on browser rendering engines by using a Chromium-based browser, so I prefer Mull which is based on Gecko.

        • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          In terms of security, Vanadium is better than Mulch. Mulch uses some of the patches of Vanadium, but it lacks many security improvements that are present in Vanadium. My current setup is Vanadium for tasks where high security is very important, and Mull for just standard browsing.

  • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    half of these are not even barely security related.

    and if you meant privacy, well, definitely none of the images either. SimpleX, SearXNG, Tor and I2P

    PS: I find it hilarious that you include proprietary software like Vivaldi or Obsidian. That is how flawed this post is.

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    that seems like a pretty random selection of things honestly, what qualifies as a cybersecurity tool? hows vivaldi a part of that? or openotp?

  • mqvisionary@lemmy.mlEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    Joplin, a note taking app… and is that obsidian icon under it? The picture is so dumb.

  • sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.chEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Ublock Origin as ads have lots of malware these days and browsing the internet is a normal occurance. I think looking at it that way it gets used far more than any other tool.

  • kugiyasan@lemmy.oneEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Why is Obsidian on the list?? How is a closed source electron app for editing markdown files a good cybersecurity tool/privacy respecting? I could use nano to do the same job with much more confidence for my privacy.

    • thesmokingman@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m not sure I follow the closed source bit. For example, Virus Total is closed source but a something used by cybersecurity professionals across the world. Most of the software that powers cloud giants is closed source and security professionals everywhere accept the shared security model.

      Closed source matters for encryption, not necessarily tooling. It’s a red herring unless you’re talking about a tool’s ability to encrypt/decrypt.

    • online@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Tbh I don’t think that’s a list. I think that’s just their website’s graphic banner thing and they slapped it on.

  • Onii-Chan@kbin.social
    15·
    1 year ago

    GrapheneOS, Signal, Vanadium, Mullvad VPN, extremely strict permissions. I don’t do much with my phone, but I still need to know I’m in control of my privacy.

  • Norgur@kbin.social
    13·
    1 year ago

    my favourite “Cyber-Security-Tool”? None of those logos up there qualify for that descrption… well… Authy perhaps…
    yet, my favourite “Cyber-Security-Tools” would be
    Configs:

    environment:
    - PUID=110XX
    - PGID=110XX
    - UMASK=002

    PasswordAuthentication no
    PermitRootLogin no

    Software:

    • Restic
    • Bitwarden
  • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I use Firefox, Proton everything, Signal (for the 4 contacts who have it). I guess that’s it.

    I try to use Plex as much as possible instead of streaming services…?

    • Vexz@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Sadly Plex collects some data about its users. I remember opting out of some telemetry stuff but I can’t remember where that was. If you want a self-hosted streaming service like Plex that completely respects your privacy, Jellyfin is what you’re looking for. I tried it and it’s okay but not as good as Plex imo. But if your main focus is privacy then you should definitely check it out. It’s FOSS.

      Edit:
      I found where I had to opt out some data collection for Plex. Open this site, scroll halfway down the page. You’lle see two checkboxes for “Send playback data to Plex” and “Advertising Consent”.

      • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I tried Jellyfin too but Plex is much better. I just threw it in the list because I figured it was better than having a bunch of video and music streaming services.

  • thesmokingman@programming.devEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’m not really seeing much in the way of cybersecurity tools in this thread. These are all FOSS and usable without extra cost (although some have paid upgrades)

  • Extras@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    For security: aegis (totp manager) , keepassxc/dx (password manager), veracrypt (local encryption) and cryptomator (cloud/mobile encryption). Thats it pretty much everythng else I use is more for privacy Edit: cant believe I forgot about ublock origin. it’s like a condom for the internet